Truly corporate Drupal sites
adrian - April 28, 2004 - 14:25
I am trying to get together a Drupal portfolio of sorts , of truly unique "i can't believe that is Drupal" caliber sites.
I have actually seen some nice corporate Drupal sites in the past that do not feature on the site list anymore. This is nowhere near a complete list, but I think this should get the discussion going.
I would personally list the following :
- [ cialog ]
- A prime example of the caliber site I would like to spotlight in this thread. Very distinctive look, great use of corporate design for a completely different, slick appearance
- Ecademy
- Widely known, with thousands of regular users. It might not fit the corporate billing completely, but it's still a well respected (and long running) drupal site.
- Sudden thoughts
- Innovative music review / information site. Just the unique front page alone sets it apart from the rest.
there are more.. but i'd like to know what you guys would set apart from the rest
Karlstad University library
Karlstad University library
A site that describes the services the library offers the students and the public. Also a database with there resources such as magazines.
Uses some special tweaks to get multi lingual support.
not corporate
but an organization site with a nice, not very drupal looking design (done with drupal 4.3): http://www.tacticaltech.org
very pretty..
very pretty..
Too Good
Too Good................superb Work
Excellent site
Really useable, great navigation. An excellent example.
Terminus?
Terminus1525 is still community-oriented, but it is quite different from most drupal sites in that it uses visual art as main communication medium ;). Great work by walkah on this:
aww...
*blush*
How about a templating tutorial?
I would really love to read a tutorial on how you went about creating the template for the site. Especially how you have a front page which is so different to the other pages on the site.
i.e. they don't all have the same large flash anim at the top of the page.
Yes.
I'll second that. Even without all the Flash animation, the layout of nodes and links within boxes is fantastic. I'd love to learn more about the considerations needed to create something like that in a clean, effective manner.
Double Drupal's Value
I third that! A tutorial would be a HUGE help!
Drupal must be one of the easiest CMSes when it comes to making a basic site. But let's face it: how many people who want a basic site have ever even heard of CMS? There are other easier ways to achieve similar results. But for more advanced webmasters, the trick is getting Drupal's powerful tools to create the site you can already see in your head. If that gap were bridged (and I know it's not for me), there'd be a lot more people wanting to use Drupal.
I also have to agree that this is the best Drupal site I've seen. But it's not just that. This is one of the best websites I've ever seen: someone actually harnessing the power of digital media rather than presenting an online document with color and hyperlinks. Kudos!
Agreed
I would be an avid reader of such a tutorial... Drupal is inching, with every month passing, to a space in which a huge number of people like me (not programmers but "super users") could harness its power. The rub is in the documentation. A great start was "Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress" - the Drupal part was written at the right level.
In the next few weeks, I intend to replace the temporary home page at http://www.gov20.info with a drupal powered web site. :-)
patrick
very excellent design
compliments to whoever put that together. very intuitive and nice on the eye.
Well done
Jason
Sweet
Sweet. This is easily the most visually stunning site that uses Drupal that I've ever seen. -m
A fine piece of work. Hope,
A fine piece of work. Hope, this site appears as a part of drupal powered sites at FOSDEM 2005.
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krishna
"GNU/Linux, nothing commercial about it"
Wow! Nice!
Wow! Nice!
How?
did you do all the flash stuff (assume it is flash). What mods you using?
the flash is mostly included
the headlines are done just as part of the theme... other flash bits are largely self contained. however, there are some bits that pull custom XML data from the site.
quicktime integragion
what did you use for quicktime integration on the site?
custom
it's a custom - terminus-specific - artwork module that handles the QT / WMV as well as the mp3s , etc.
"custom..."
meaning not for us poor folk?
I love the forum design!
I just wanted to congratulate the designer(s) of this site. I have been browsing it for the past few minutes, and have found it entertaining and unexpectedly playful. I love the way the forums have been designed most of all - bravo!
Best,
Matthew
big thanks to zincroe
the design work (and really most of the concept) is all the work of Zinc Roe Design (http://www.zincroe.com/) ... really good guys!
Hmmm...
While the Terminus1525 site is awesome, I tend to shy away from anything (especially if it's a web design firm...) that I can't view in Firefox. Granted, Firefox has it's quirks, but when the site becomes completely unusable, that's where I draw the line.
Are you sure about that?
Are you sure about that? I've just tried and it works fine in Firefox? Using v1.5 and all is well. If you're having probs with the flash on those sites then have a look here to sort it ;-)
this is REALLY
Nice...it's beautiful functional simple..and loads fast...how come?
Nice
I like Terminus1525.ca
It looks professional and creative. Doesn't follow the typical Drupal design at all. Well done.
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BioALIEN
Buy/Sell/Trade with other webmasters: WebMasterTrader.com
Elemental Events
Hmm...I'm probably seriously biased since I did the site design ... but here's a business related website that uses Drupal:
Elemental Events (www.ElementalEvents.com)
Shane
Dated design?
It's not bad but the design looks a bit dated to me.
Okay - dated, how?
Okay - I'm curious how you think it's dated? That's the XTemplate Pushbutton theme hacked up and simplified. Any thoughts on why you think it's dated would be certainly appreciated. TIA.
Shane
A bit late, but a couple of points
- The drop shadow on that slideshow thing is way too fat and way too dark. Use a lower opacity and less depth.
- The menu at the top is just horrible: the colors are awful, plus styling things like sharp 3D buttons is a bit outdated.
- The links on the left get lost in the background. It's also not a good idea to use images for text. Just use clever styling to make them stand out instead.
- The logo at the top doesn't have enough contrast with its background
- login link on the left is c
- login link on the left is completely lost and yet is probably quite useful for users to see
thanks...for the info...but...
Since this is a "Corporate" drupal site - the general public has no need to login. I dropped the login box on purpose. The idea behind "Corporate" websites is it's a medium to publish information about a business - it isn't necessarily a "Community Driven" site.
I've done a lot of hacks to the XTemplate theme to make things a lot more "corporate-ish" in this respect. Corporate websites don't post attributions for every single piece of content (node) - they don't generally have interactive features, etc...
I leverage Drupal as a CMS - to manage my content - not as a community blogging site. I think Drupal is a great start on a CMS - but it's core focus has been surrounding a community blogging style or news publishing style (ala /.) site. It's slowly "growing up" in the area of CMS - but has a long long ways to go.
The core engine behind things is a great example of a good modular approach - and with careful forethought and engineering it can get there.
Its not Drupals fault your template looks dated
How does Drupal being a community driven system or not affect it's corporate look when designing the template?
Corporate is often made up of plain fonts, not too many changes in type faces, lots of open space and usually a white background for clarity.
Hm, something seems wrong
This site looked very odd in Safari on Mac OS X 10.3.4. Not sure if you want to or can test it in that browser (which is generally standards compliant).
Safari support
Jaharmi - I don't have access to any Mac's - any chance you can send a screenshot of how it looks? Would greatly appreciate it. Thanks. email: shane-drupal@tuna.org
Safari
Hello. Although I am an Apple user and (therefore) fan. I have to say that Safari is * not * the most compliant browser. Many sites do not work well with Safari.
I find Firefox much better.
Silly Question
Hi,
I like the site! This is a silly question (since I'm new to Drupal), but how did you set it up to NOT require a password of everyone who visits?
not the best place for this question
but you can hide the User login block from the Blocks admin page. You can choose paths for which it is visible. For example, on one site, I made a page called login (the url is 'login') which is published, but not on the front page, and not accessible through any link. The User login block is only visible on that page, so when any user wants to log in, they have to go to that page directly.
See here for more details:
http://drupal.org/book/view/296
- Robert Douglass
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visit me at www.robshouse.net
Not viewable in Safari
Just a friendly FYI: I'm running the latest OS X Safari and the site comes up extremely fragmented and almost unusuable. I can send you a screenshot or two out-of-band if you like.
When I went to it in Firefox, the site's info was easy to navigate. Modifying the style of the right-hand links and moving away from "simple boxes" in the blocks might appease the "modern" critics a bit.
Theme-ing Drupal (any CMS for that matter) can be a bit daunting, but I'm working on it for version 2.0 of the site I just posted in the showcase forums (http://www.lvchs.org/) and it's just a matter of viewing as much good current design as possible and getting way too familiar with the templates.
Its not working.
Here is what I got:
Fatal error: Can't open file: 'cache.MYI' (errno: 145) query: SELECT data, created, headers FROM cache WHERE cid = '/' in /home/ee/public_html/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 97
Drupal the great enabler!
http://howibecameaninternetmillionaire.com/
slim pickings
a couple of good sites but it's hardly a list of the 'best of the web'
I think that because Drupal's focus (at present) is on bloggers and small community sites, that just what it gets.
Drupal is very flexible, and could be used for a large professional site, perhaps a bit of polishing in this regard would help woo more professional web developers.
I would like to see some more _really_ good sites, it's good for inspiration, and helps with selling other people on Drupal too.
perhaps we are the next
perhaps we are the next generation of web developers!?
;)
Some that recently caught my eye:
Illect.com
Webschuur.com
I'm really interested in building out a mega list of Drupal sites to include location, theme, topics, registered guests, modules etc. I would much prefere to use the current notification system if anyone else agrees this is the way to go but will do by hand if necessary.
notification system
one thing about an automatic list is that it is mainly just people setting up test sites etc.
I think that for promoting Drupal, and for showing off what can be done with it, a hand picked list is the way to go (no reason not to have both tho).
When first looking at Drupal I was initially a bit put-off by the poor quality of the majority of sites in the list.
Categorising sites is a good idea.
OK I have started
I'm using an Excel spreadsheet for now. I'm just picking out the following:
URL
Name
Focus
Location
Design Ranking
Users
Any thoughts/input/help appreciated.
Flexinode or your own module
Perhaps using flexinode or write your own quickie module with nothing really special in it. :-)
Combine this with the taxonomy, and it should be great.
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"Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising every time we fall." -- Confusious
Do you have some private contact?
Hi,
I'm currently developing a very non-Drupalish site with Drupal, I think the only tell-tale signs are the flexinode divs :) But, as said, it is under development, and I can not publish the URL. If you have an email address, I'd happy to show you around. I've developed a menu module (will publish that), a very simple page module for the main page (no reason to publish), and the flexinode table type have just reached the working state, I'll publish that ASAP.
Another site to watch
Like others, sorry for suggesting my own...but I think it'll be increasingly visually interesting as it continues to grow with video, flash, image-based content...and as I spruce up the CSS background over time.
wooblelab.com
Note that we're moving over to wooblelab.org next week...
Leave my browser alone!
One thing I cannot stand is when a website has the audacity to take over my browser's display. It's especially ridiculous for Illect.com, which is a tiny fixed-width site. Why do I need to maximize a browser that already is more than twice the width of the website?
I know this is my own peeve, but on Windows machines I've had to sometimes cold boot the computer just to get a website to let go of the browser. Here it's the benign behavior of maximizing the browser on each click. Still it's enough to tell me never to return to this site.
Design-wise, I'm also not a big fan of embedded scrolls, but otherwise it looks nice.
(I know this comment is a year and a day after the post, but that browser resizing thing just got my goat.)
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Laura
pingV
intranet site
I can't share a link since our site in on the corporate intranet, but I run a portal for a good sized group of salespeople for a major computer vendor on Drupal.
From monitoring the discussion lists, I'd say this isn't an uncommon configuration. While drupal may be "community" oriented, there are certainly corporate communities too. What drew me to Drupal was the professional look and feel of the package. I looked at the *nuke flavors and all of them seemed more oriented to someone running a gaming clan or other enthusiast community rather than a corporate site.
Just my two cents, wish I could share! ;)
screenshot?
a screenshot, and/or a description of how it's set up would be good.
P.S. no doubt about *nuke being quite crap, I think it would be a good day for Drupal when it stops getting compared to Nukes and starts getting compared to Bricolage and Plone (not quite there yet perhaps).
>> a screenshot, and/or a des
>> a screenshot, and/or a description of how it's set up would be good.
I wish I could post screenshots, but we've got enough rumor sites reporting on our group without adding to the fire. ;)
We're using Drupal 4.3 with the following modifications:
- Heavily modified Xtemplate theme
- I wrote a new authentication module to support our in-house single-sign-on application (which is a webapp that uses cookies to verify the user login, it was actually pretty easy to implement)
- I modified taxonomy.module and node.module and index.html to give the user a custom home page with just the news stories that interested their group based on their group assignment using profile.module.
- Rather than use the integrated menus, I made a new menu block. I used profile.module and some simple PHP to present the user with a custom menu with their group section expanded and the rest collapsed. Again, using profile.module and simple PHP.
- Probably the most creative thing I did was to use gnews2rss.php, a google news screen scraping script, to create custom contextual news boxes on each product in the taxonomy. Basically, I set up blocks for each taxonomy term by setting up an RSS feed using custom search terms to get a good news result, then set up a block with a custom path so that it would display when someone brought up that taxonomy term. That made the portal a bit more dynamic and it looks good.
That's about it, really. We're using taxonomies extensively to sort information based on product. Mostly the portal is used by the technical sales people, but we track performance numbers for the regular sales people too.
Intrested in creating Intranet site
If there would be some why for you to contact me I would love to get some incite into how you set your intranet site up.
I am creating an Intranet site for a Construction company for about 100+ emplyees. You can email me at rclark@clarkcc.com.
Thank you
Russ
Hmmm... :-$
Sempre Crescendo.nl.. :-$
(I'm a little bit ashamed to post one of my own websites here, but I think it should be..)
Also, don't forget this one:
Desbeers . nl which is from a good friend of mine which brought drupal to me.
May want to rethink that
May want to rethink that header. The title is hard to read with the distracting background images. I'd shrink that strip of pictures and lower the title so it's not over the pictures. Another way would be blurring or lightening the image strip to make the tile more readable. Then again I can only read English so even if you did that I still couldn't read it ha ha.
Otherwise cool theme.
Redesign
Thank you very much for your compliments regarding my corporate website. In my humble opinion the outstanding modularity is what makes DRUPAL such a good choice - not only for bloggers but for much more. I've got some projects in the works:
Portfolio?
Hello Stefan,
I am curious what have you used for
http://www.cialog.com/portfolio/list
can you tell me?
Sorry for the delayed answer
.... the portfolio modul is a custom modul i wrote for upcoming drupal 4.5. As it uses some features that only my custom theme can provide, i'm not sure if i should contribute it to the community. anyone in need of such a modul ?
portfolio.module vs. weblinks.module
Your "portfolio.module" appears to very very similar in function to the weblinks module. The weblinks module could easily stand in as a replacement and be used simlarly. It'd only take a couple of minor changes to the code to output the word "portfolio" in place of "weblinks".
BioRegio
Hi Stefan
Could you drop me an email to regarding your theme?
drupal@jcolburn.com
Thansk, Jez
Changing header images
How did you go about getting a different header image to appear for each section in the [ cialog ] site?
Is it something in the template? What template engine are you using?
Headerimage module?
I'm also asking me that. We often need headerimages for our projects and I already thought of a module extending the properties of menu items and nodes to allow the upload/assignment of headerimages.
Daniel F. Kudwien
unleashed mind
BioRegio is sweet! Nice
BioRegio is sweet! Nice layout and style. This an excellent example of corporate site using Drupal.
- matthew | nautis.com
Our new startup's corporate site
We will be implementing opensource applications for our clients and decide to build our corporate site www.azimuthlabs.com using drupal.
- customize drupal to emulate corporate sites' IA
- remove blogs features in all pages
simon
good
Nice, very good work!
http://negen.altervista.org
Nice clean site
I like the clean design you've applied to drupal in azimuthlabs. How did you remove the "submitted by..." stuff at the top of each page of content? When I made basic "static" type pages on my site I noticed I got the bloggy post style header at the top. Haven't gotten rid of them yet, although I'd like to eventually. Thanks :-)
Check existing posts regarding "submitted by"
Several links referenced in this page:
http://drupal.org/node/view/6385#9663
on how to remove submitted by and date information.
thanks for the tip
I went ahead and read those posts and then tweaked the code on the theme file and...it worked. No more "submitted by: date" on the static pages. Thanks :-)
Feeding back Drupal case studies
Some of the sites listed here are simply amazing. It would be really interesting to have them listed in a more official page (and visible for newcomers) such as Drupal case studies.
drupal extended
i made a site that i never really made public using drupal. i imported > 5000 nodes from open source content into drupal using a PHP script to parse it. i think of it as a test of drupal and my abilities dealing with drupal. you can check it out, it's called the man|doc project. http://mandoc.etopian.net/. It has all the man pages and all the documents from the tldp. the database over 80 megs for it i think. It's kind of slow, but really does push drupal's limits.
Something you can contribute back?
I'd be interested in your script, if you could contribute it back (to personal email is fine as well).
I'm working as part of a project to convert lots of common material and resources (HOWTOs, LDP, handbooks, Gutenberg, etc.) to handheld format (Plucker). This would be a great addition to that effort.
Cool examples!
Those websites do look good. Especially Ecademy, I think
it is a successful example of Drupal used by a corporate.
I've been trying Xoops, Xaraya, Ez publish, and now Drupal
to see which one of them would fit the corporate websites,
and their usabilities. Xoops and Xaraya are very easy to
install but Ez publish. I hope I can install Drupal just like two others.
here is one in turkish.
theglassfurnace.org is a glass arts school in istanbul turkey. this is the copy we work on. it will be published on its own domain soon.
here are some more...
They're all in turkish, and based on drupal. the first one is designed by us, the other two by the customer.
Very nice.
Very nice.
pro sites
very nice work
what did you use on those sites? phptemplate or what?
i want to understand more on drupal
thx
Eka
hipfoto
Hi I've seen hipfoto on various drupal-show-off lists.
The site looks GREAT!
I was wondering what imagehandling solution you are using. All the existing solutions don't seem to handle large amounts of images very well. Your site revolves all around images. So you must be using some other form of media-management.
Did you write a solution yourself or did you find the holy grail that we all here are looking for?
globo
Hello, I think we modified
Hello,
I think we modified the image.module, to save images in a 100X100 directory matrix. so there were 10.000 directories in a NAS device to save image files. And we wrote our own gallery. but we had a shitty shitty programmer who ran away in the middle of the project. Later we found a pretty good programmer, but we were never able to entirely clean up the mess the other guy left. So i wouldnt recommend modifying drupal for a high traffic web site, unless you have a programmer who knows drupal inside out, or unless you use drupal as is.
How about a contest?
Why not have a theme contest, to be judged by the community, and the prize could be to have your theme included in the current or future package...
I think this could produce a lot of great themes for Drupal, in a short time. Mambo did something similar to this about 6 months ago and it produced some great looking templates.
Very good idea!
Very good idea!
Contest, please
WordPress also did a contest one year ago or so and the result was about fifty new free templates that helped a lot diversifying the blog's appearances.
I think Drupal is in a very good moment to suggest an easy-to-submit + glory-as-unique-prize contest.
ehehehh
I agree with you... even people that does not know Drupal (at all) could be interested in the context!
Ixis IT corporate site
How about the simple and clean http://www.ixis.co.uk/
Drupal is a freedom for
Drupal is a freedom for designers. I`m not a programmer-in-mind but with Drupal i`m feeling like ... (continue this sentence by yourself:)
mine ---- 1.
mine
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1. DesignCollector
2. Media Mix
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not mine
1. PRonline
The best theme is ...
The best theme I have seen for Drupal web site is http://www.spreadfirefox.com/
Granted it is not "corporate" pre se, but look at the clean design, and how appealing it is. The selection of fonts, sizes, colors and everything about it is just perfect.
Wow...!
Thanks for your very kind praise! I think the theme could use a great deal of work, but I'm glad you like it despite its rough edges.
And I will be releasing this theme once I get around to rewriting it for Drupal 4.5. We're stuck in the process of moving the site to a better infrastructure and so I haven't had time to hack on it recently.
Chris
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User Advocate for CivicSpace Labs
Rough edges?
If there are rough edges, I have not noticed them.
What I noticed is that it is harmonious, i.e. it all blends together nicely. Other themes can have very good components, only to blow it when the "Submit" button shows up or when a font of some element looks out of place.
I am looking forward to porting this theme back to Drupal.
I noticed it is based on phptemplate. This is not currently part of Drupal core, and I am not sure if it is suppose to be THE TRUE way going forward, or whether Xtemplate is the way to go.
Keep that in mind and perhaps ask the developers what is best.
Not Drupal-like
The standard themes offer very much the same approach to layout.
One of the many nice things about the Firefox theme is that it demonstrates how Drupal's appearance can be heavily customised. It doesn't immediately scream "this another Drupal site"
Has its problems
I have to say I'm not a massive fan of the Firefox site. Looks great unless the browser isn't maximised because the theme isn't fixed width.
I also would like to see a contest
A contest would bring out a lot of issues that go unnoticed. A lot of users go with the standard themes because there is not enough gab about the possiblilities.
I would like to throw my hat in the ring of corporate like sites with www.hivemindz.com. Even though it is not finished it is a bit different from the typical three column layout. I am going horizontal which brings with it all sorts of benefits. Like soon I will be able to gain more realestate for the forum and admin pages which are very crowded somtimes in a three or two column layout.
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www.hivemindz.com (running PHP5)
www.fireorb.org (documentation and hacks)
__________________________
Carl McDade
Information Technology Consult
Team Macromedia
Finally something different!
The hivemindz.org site is great, I love that the underying CMS is undetectible, since you are using the horizontal layout! This gives the site a very pro, and a good "I'm a company not a portal!" feel.
Am i missing something?
Still looks like three columns to me!!? Menus at top left an right, with the content down the middle. Am i missing something?
-- www.spamfo.co.uk | www.buddasworld.co.uk | www.bargainspy.co.uk
The menus at the top left
The menus at the top left and right are actually a horizontal header in a table. That table is individual from the rest of the content. So the content can be formed in other layouts without effecting the blocks and vice versa. I chose to go vertical with the blocks for now.
A more advanced version is coming with FireOrb where even the blocks will be individual and probably horizontal.
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www.hivemindz.com (running PHP5)
www.fireorb.org (documentation and hacks)
__________________________
Carl McDade
Information Technology Consult
Team Macromedia
Gives me hope
I'm looking to transfer an existing UK film site to a good CMS, and was initially put off by the apparent inflexibility of Drupal on the design side (so many 3 column sites). This is encouraging. Have also got databases of articles to think about so lots of homework to do. Our site is at www.iofilm.co.uk
German Info Portal
I've found a German Info Portal Site (seems it's still in development).
It does'nt look like the most personal Drupal Sites, but it's not a realy new creation.
Another distinctive looking site
This one may not be corporate per se, but it looks that a lot of effort went into the theming of it
http://www.stagespace.com/
Nice use of blocks
I like the use of the three column second level header area, also the user login is a nice change. Well done.
stagespace is very nice, but ...
is it based on an available theme, or was there a lot of customization/coding involved?
I'm about to launch two sites and need something similar & am trying to figure out if I need to hire someone.
3d tutorials
Can I integrate Drupal to my static website?
How that can be done?
http://www.3dmax-tutorials.com
What do you think about the
What do you think about the theme at http://www.buysites.biz ?
Commercial Template
Very BoxedArt or TemplateMonster, nice modding though!
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Read the handbook, search the forums, then ask!
http://drupal.etopian.net (Consulting, Development, and Hosting)
Broken in Firefox
I'd expect a site selling templates to at least have a clue about browser compatibility...
Excellent Effort
Excellent Effort...All the Best
Excellent
Really Cool,
I wonder when I'd be able to make something like that. I'm new to Drupal. like to know what are the mods u've used?
All the best
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ourgreenbelt.ca
ourgreenbelt.ca is a site I put together for the Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation in Toronto, Canada. I didn't do the design, but I did everything else, including recommending Drupal. :)
I had only two weeks to choose a CMS, learn that CMS, and put the entire site together as you see it now, exactly matching an existing design done in Adobe Illustrator. That was a LOT of work!
I think it turned out well, and doesn't look very Drupalish. Not that there's anything wrong with that... Right now the site is in its Winter clothes. As Spring approaches the theme will be modified to represent the changing season.
There's no custom PHP in this site. But there are many custom blocks with specific visibility to create the variety of pages. Unfortunately I didn't have enough time to choose anything but the XTemplate engine. I'm hoping I'll get the opportunity to update the site with PHPTemplate some time in the future.
are you using book module?
I noticed the "vision" section has "previous page" and "next page" navigation while the maps have "previous MAP" and "next MAP" (my caps). Did you just put the html in each page for that or did you do something custom to allow this?
nice!
gorgeous site. it's really nice to see sites that can break out of the traditional drupal look. there are so many posts that say, hey look at my site, it's different and then when you go there, it's exactly the same. this is on of the best drupal sites i've ever seen.
i hope you'd be willing to share some of your lessons with us, it seems like we have a lot to learn from you...
http://www.varnelis.net
Thank you!
Well, I'm blushing now. :) I'd certainly be willing to share some lessons I learned doing the site. As suggested below by kbahey, I'll be posting about the Greenbelt site in a new topic on the Showcase forum. I'll answer any questions there.
Thanks so much for your compliments!
Book module? Yes and no...
I do use the book module for most of the site, but as I had such a limited timeframe I just hacked in some HTML when the book module didn't do what I wanted. Of course maintenance is a bit more difficult...
Add it in the showcase
Hi zigguratt
Please make a separate post under the showcase forum for that web site. It looks good and deserves it.
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Drupal development and customization: 2bits.com
Personal: Baheyeldin.com
Greenbelt site in showcase
Thanks, Khalid. I'll start a new topic in the showcase.
Edit: Done.
Firepair Consulting Ltd
Here's a web hosting and consulting company that uses drupal for tons of stuff. Mostly for e-commerce customers.
One up, a few more in the queue
Here's one I did, launched in November.
I'm also in the early phases of developing a set of interrelated corporate/e-commerce sites; more details when it gets a proper public launch.
--R.J.
http://www.electric-escape.net/
ecommerce
rjung i'm very interested in ecommerce. are you using 4.7 or 4.6?
can't wait to see your site. please keep us posted.
ae
Still on 4.6
Currently using 4.6, just because I prefer its proven stability and suite of modules. We might not be using the Drupal e-commerce for this newest project (due to customer preferences), so that may be just a straightforward CMS site instead.
--R.J.
http://www.electric-escape.net/
which then
rjung,
thanks. which module could i use instead? can you share what you are planning to use for ecommerce?
thank you,
ae
Customized Drupal e-commerce
For the QBaby site, I just used the (at the time) latest Drupal 4.6 ecommerce suite. I wrote some customized code to calculate shipping by shipping method and the number of items, as well as some code to interface with a fulfillment service, but most of it is just the tried-and-true 4.6 ecommerce package.
The stuff I'm currently working on is still in flux, so I'm not sure what ecommerce approach we'll end up going with.
--R.J.
http://www.electric-escape.net/
4.6
thank you very much. I'm trying to interpret your posts. It sounds like you've been pretty happy with 4.6, but I can't quite tell. Have you been pleased with ecommerce 4.6? If you can share what non-drupal software you are considering, I'd be very interested to hear your perspectives.
thank you very much,
ae
Not to hijack this topic any further...
Why don't you send me some email and we can discuss this further in private? rjung at mac dot com
I'm happy with Drupal 4.6 for its stability and wealth of modules, though I admit the e-commerce package for Drupal 4.6 could offer more features/options.
--R.J.
http://www.electric-escape.net/
ecademy front page?
can someone help identify if "ecademy" uses "frontpage" to achieve the index page? tks
Corporate website: Alpha Square
Hi there,
I'm a very happy drupal-user !
Check out our corporate website: www.alpha-square.be
Regards,
Wouter
snowboard-mag.com
Let's not forget: snowboard-mag.com
correct link
That link was broken, use: www.snowboard-mag.com
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Rakeback.com - Rakeback deals to online poker players
Corporate Evolution
I'm just adding the finishing touches to my latest project, a corporate site that makes use of the front page, taxonomy image and side content modules.
www.corpevolution.com
Yes, I know that images have been used for the text in the side content but this is what the client insisted be used. And yes I know that there is the odd image in the side content that looks out of place, but again this is what the client wanted and as we all know the client always knows best.
Overall as a corporate site I’m pretty happy with it, so I thought I would post it as an example of a non-traditional application of Drupal.
www.slickfish.com.au
professional, affordable web site design, production and maintenance for small business
how much a site like this cost?
how much a site like this cost?
Some sites for your review
All the sites are in portuguese, but I think you can take a look.
Ordered by conclusion date:
Very nice
Those are great looking sites magico.
Donat Group Enterprises
It is our own site.
It was our first Drupal site.
We kind of aborted development when it got too busy. We hope to finish it before summer.
But I think it is a pretty corporate looking site with a unique twist on the Drupal paradigm.
Donat Group
Thoughts?
Another non-profit site
World Pulse Magazine
nice site
how does it change to different pages when content changes?
also the top banner..
it changes with page changes..
how to achieve this? using banner module? thanks
banner